Ona
Americannoun
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Onas,
plural
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Ona
plural
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a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
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a female given name.
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And, for me, a loaf of chocolate zucchini bread from a little Amish market and greenhouse somewhere outside Ona, West Virginia.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
It is the same with the loss of Spain full-back Ona Batlle, who also left the club last summer to join Barcelona.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
"They need new taxpayers, they need new soldiers," Maria Mueller, of the Russian feminist association Ona, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
Wael Hana, 40, entered the plea at a hearing before Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in federal court in Manhattan.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
And at the end of the day, Ona would help Martha Washington undress and get into her nightgown before assisting her into bed.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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The Onas in their native land have no horses.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
This brings us to one of the most remarkable facts in connection with the Onas.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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